Students
Specialist Study Skills Support
Specialist Study Skills support is like having someone who will help you to develop your own ‘tool kit’ of strategies that work for you, to help you with your studies and on into the graduate workplace.
Depending on your needs, you may be provided with a Specialist Study Skills Tutor and/or a Specialist Mentor who will work with you to provide individually tailored support around your needs to support you with your course.
Here is an idea of some of the things which might be covered in a session:
Specialist Mentor Support
A Specialist Mentor is like having someone who has a ‘torch’ to help you keep on track with your studies, while helping you to find your own ‘torch’. They will work with you to help you recognise the barriers to learning created by your impairment and support you in developing strategies to address these barriers.
The support could include:
Coping with anxiety and stress situations
How to deal with concentration difficulties
Time management, prioritising workload
Procrastination
Creating a suitable work-life balance
If there is some part of your studies you are struggling with, you can talk to your tutor about it.
Our Commitment to You
Access your Ability aims to provide services of a high standard to all our users. We are happy to receive any suggestions you may wish to make regarding our services and how we might improve.
If you are looking for support, please contact us support@accessyourability.co.uk
Student Feedback
I am finding my 1:1 support massively important. I use this time to talk about things that are worrying me, and it just gives me the chance to talk openly. I find it helpful in learning how to manage my anxiety and worries generally. My mentor is very patient, caring and has helped me to think more positively and challenge my automatic negative thoughts. She is the only counsellor I have actually formed a therapeutic relationship with due to her consistency of our sessions and of how she communicates with me.
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